On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:00:08AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How much do you intend to use NSS for? I mean, what's the point of > > adopting this cool infrastructure if all you are going to do with it > > is make a better PAM out of it? > > The important thing is that NSS allows to plug modules such as LDAP or > PostgreSQL for user base management. PAM is only halfway there and > doesn't give libc et al. a notion of a user or group context (in spite > of its "account" context), NSS does. One might discuss if PAM is really > needed with NSS in place, but it's hard to think of a system without > NSS and removing PAM now doesn't look right.
NSS and PAM do not overlap. They are complimentary and one cannot do the job of the other. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine NTT/Verio SME FreeBSD UNIX Heimdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
